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- At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. — Charles Babbage
- I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. .… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance… — Thomas Jefferson
- My Jesus! What a lovable contrivance this holy Sacrament was - that You would hide under the appearance of bread to make… — Alphonsus Liguori
- Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper… — Thomas A. Edison
- Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will… — Jimmy Carter
- Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from… — Robert Collier